Re: Thomas Roe in 1700's Maryland
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Re: Thomas Roe in 1700's Maryland
Sherry Jones 12/27/04
Sherry,
Cloud's Range was located in "Long's Neck."The Benjamin Roe you mentioned is probably the Benjamin Roe who inherited "Cloud's Range" from his father Thomas Roe of Queen Anne's County whose Will & Testament was probated 22 July 1754.Thomas Roe (d. ca. 1754) was the son of John Roe (b. between 1660-1664 - d. ca. 1737) of Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties.John Roe in turn was the son of "Thomas Roe, Sr." of Queen Annes/Talbot Counties (and formerly of St. Mary's Co.) whose Will & Testament was probated in 1712.(One of the witnesses to the document was a John Webb.)
I'm not sure off hand of all of the family who came to Anson, but I do recall that John Roe (d. 1783), eldest son of the "Quaker" Edward Roe (ca. 1696-1748) and Edward's wife Sarah Richardson (d. 1748), came to Anson County and left his Will & Testament in Richmond County, NC which was formed from Anson Co.Edward Roe was also a son of John Roe who died ca. 1737 and a grandson of Thomas Roe who died. ca. 1712.I also recall that some of the children of Edward's daughter Rachel Roe who had married Henry Covington (d. ca. 1766) in 1738 came to Anson County too as did the sons and daughter of Edward Roe's devisee Nathaniel Curtis (d. 1758) around 1769.I'm pretty sure there were some other Roe kinsmen who made the trek southward too, but the above are the ones I readily recall.
If you're unable to locate Long's Neck on the maps you have available it is probably identified in one of the volumes of Queen Anne's or Talbot County land records abstracted by Bernice Leonard.There's quite a few volumes to both sets, but many public libraries with good size genealogy collections have the sets.Another place to try is the Maryland Archives (Hall of Records) Web site.It's been awhile since I've been to the site, and I don't recall if they had maps, or not, but you might try looking there and also on the USGenWeb site for Queen Anne's County.
Jay.